Aeolus was appointed by Zeus as keeper of the Anemoi, imprisoning them in a cavern on his floating island and releasing them at the gods' command.
The Anemoi are the four wind gods: Boreas (north), Zephyrus (west), Notus (south), and Eurus (east), each governing a cardinal direction's wind.
The Roman Venti correspond to the Greek Anemoi as the collective personification of the directional winds, adopted into Latin poetry through direct transmission of the Greek four-wind system.
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